At a period when "The West" pretty well ends in Texas and only California is slowly being colonized by the white males, Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley has a significant paucity of women among the workers. This is because California is the only state that is slowly being populated by white men. Therefore, he travels back east to Chicago in order to find one hundred fifty ladies who are eager to marry his workers. He narrows the pool of potential candidates down to 138 people who have a good chance of making it through a month-long expedition through "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains. Written by Tom Zoerner
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At a period when "The West" pretty well ends in Texas and only California is slowly being colonized by the white males, Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley has a significant paucity of women among the workers. This is because California is the only state that is slowly being populated by white men. Therefore, he travels back east to Chicago in order to find one hundred fifty ladies who are eager to marry his workers. He narrows the pool of potential candidates down to 138 people who have a good chance of making it through a month-long expedition through "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains. Written by Tom Zoerner
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